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Initial Drive to Material Source

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Hauling heavy loads old equipment...A day in the life of hauling rock!

What happens here

The video starts with the dump truck operator and a passenger driving from their initial location towards the source of the construction material, likely a quarry. The initial drive involves navigating rural roads and eventually merging onto a main highway, providing the viewer with a sense of the journey required for heavy haulage operations.

Goal: Travel in the dump truck from the starting point to the quarry or material acquisition site.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck

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hey baby eastbound and down loaded up hey folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome to the farm vlog today we are here with Shelton's trucking Shelton's trucking in holland and we're going to take a trip to the rock quarry today and show you what it's like for a guy that drives a dump truck to go to the rock quarry so come along today on the farm bloggers and I have a little bit of fun and show you what it's like for a guy driving a dump truck to go to the rock quarry all right [Music] so folks what we're doing right now is we're leaving the Stoney Ridge farm we are in a 94 Ford L 9,000 dump truck and we are headed out to the local rock quarry with them Hulland what's called screenings or rock dust basically all day yesterday and we were hauling them all day today I've got a place where I'm going to put a parking area for my equipment and we want to pick up a bunch of it so today I asked Sheldon if it'd be cool if we took a ride in the dump truck so we're doing it cool we'll take you guys in the rock quarry we'll show you what all goes on guys you can see where we've been working tractors up here to John Deere is and I've been cleaning this little spot of land up we got the seed drill coming out in the next couple of days we're going to be drilling down some grass seeding on this land we've got a lot of work to do so if you've ever seated your lawn or have you ever had to put grass seed down you know how expensive it is and you know how much has got to go down it takes a lot to get a farm up and running and get it started and get it right and we want to do it right the first time so we're not struggling with it again like this piece of land we're struggling with it we set it up last year and it just got took over by weeds yeah maybe eastbound and down loaded up whoa our cellphones tell me once we get loaded up it's a whole lot more bumpy and a whole lot more noisy is that right yeah that's right [Music] I can't wait I radio Big Daddy coming on in so once we get closer to the rock quarry here which we're almost pulling up right now the rock quarry radio traffic picks up on his radio pretty cool today is the day before we're actually two days before the race in Martinsville Virginia I live about 15 minutes out of Martinsville Virginia Martinsville Speedway NASCAR racetrack what that means is they're state troopers running around all over everywhere pulling people over left and right and these big trucks especially a little bit older truck is more apt to…

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